On Wed, 28 Nov 2007, Florin Iucha wrote: >> I was assuming that the kernel in the final release was at least as >> advanced as the one in the alpha release. > > Not necessarily. There purpose of an alpha, beta, etc. is to evaluate > the stability of a collection of software. If the kernel had major > problems that were not solved before the release, it is possible they > would have rolled back the version, because Ubuntu has time-based > releases. Good point. Thanks. Mike